| Polyethene with pendant 3-thienyl functionalities (2002) | |||||||||||||
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| Polyethene with pendant thienyl functionalities Xiaochun Zhang and Bart Hessen Dutch Polymer Institute Centre for Catalytic Olefin Polymerisation Stratingh Institute for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering University Groningen Nijenborgh Groningen The Netherlands mail hessen chem rug Fax Tel Received Cambridge October Accepted October First published Advance Article the web October Polyethene with thienyl functionalities pendant shortchain branches was prepared catalytic random copolymerisation ethene and penten thiophene the functionalities can used graft poly hexylthiophene onto the polyethene surface Incorporating functionalities into polyolefin materials improve surface related properties such dyeability printability adhesion wettability and compatibility has been the subject considerable research both academia and industry This can realised metal catalysed copolymerisation ethene propene with functional comonomers containing amine ester alcohol borane groups but compatibility the Lewis acidic transition metal catalyst with the often Lewis basic functionalities important issue Here describe the copolymerisation ethene with penten thiophene olefin with very soft Lewis basic functionality give random copolymers with pendant thienyl groups the short chain branches Through these functionalities this copolymer can readily grafted with the conjugated polymer poly hexylthiophene previous work observed that both neutral and cationic Lewis acidic group and group metal based ethene | |||||||||||||
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